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afghanistan is his, iraqi' iraq. >> charlie: i think there are some who voted for him that perhaps inexperience has played a role here and that therefore if you look at economic policy, the absence of experience in washington, the absence of experience in dealing with the kinds of economic issues we faced has shown itself. >> i actually, i actually believe the opposite, actually. i actually think what h did wrong was put in th whitehouse a bunch of people that were this sort of old style politicians, the old style, they were old clinton people. and he didn't bring in sort of the business. >> charlie: go ahead. i don't think that's necessary but go ahead. i think that's part of it too. i think that's an argument being made out there that he chose the wrong people to be surrounded. but if you aue who would those people who say he chose the wrong people have recommended, most of the people o make that argument think it should have been not business aders but it should have been sort of more populist. >> when i mean business i don't mean going to wall street and pick somebody out of wall street. i'
afghanistan is his, iraqi' iraq. >> charlie: i think there are some who voted for him that perhaps inexperience has played a role here and that therefore if you look at economic policy, the absence of experience in washington, the absence of experience in dealing with the kinds of economic issues we faced has shown itself. >> i actually, i actually believe the opposite, actually. i actually think what h did wrong was put in th whitehouse a bunch of people that were this sort of old...
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you count savings from withdrawal of troops, from afghanistan and from iraq. you have some other defense cuts can, you have a whole bunch of discretionary cuts. you do some little things on mandatory programs that are not social security or medicare. and so then the deal gets done and some ofhese big questions on medicare and taxes get saved for the 2012 campaign. on the other hand, whenou read quotes which you occasionally read, from congressional staffers, republican staff are saying, you know, ybe a showdown in whiche don't get this deal isn't the worst thing. that does make you wonder how many people within congress think that actually no deal would be better than a deal. and my colleague david brooks argues that that would be very bad for the republicans politically. i'm not so sure about that. there is only one president and there's only one ecomy and i think there's a chance that chaos and no deal actually hurts the white house and to the extent that the republicans agree with that, then we could be in for a really dicey couple of months. >> rose: thank
you count savings from withdrawal of troops, from afghanistan and from iraq. you have some other defense cuts can, you have a whole bunch of discretionary cuts. you do some little things on mandatory programs that are not social security or medicare. and so then the deal gets done and some ofhese big questions on medicare and taxes get saved for the 2012 campaign. on the other hand, whenou read quotes which you occasionally read, from congressional staffers, republican staff are saying, you...
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we cannot do that." >> rose: with afghanistan? >> with afghanistan. am i doingin afghanistan gha what lyndon johnson did in vietnam 40 years before. >> rose: my assumption in the surge in part-- and you assume he thinks it has strategic significance and importance there because you don't want afghanistato be a haven for terrism d at the same time when he was going through this there were only, like, 100 members of al qaeda that there. allknow that. my assumption has always been just your point. i think he was influenced by the idea that, look i'm not sure this is going to work but i'm not prepared not to the do it and see what the consequens are. i'm mo prepared to do in the this case because i've described this as a war of choice... i've described this as a war of necessity, not choice, as iq was characterized a aar choice. >> i think you're absolutely on it and what we tried to do literally in chapter 9 of this book is to describe the mind-set of obama when he was handling time and time again questions relating to afghanistan. for example, in the su
we cannot do that." >> rose: with afghanistan? >> with afghanistan. am i doingin afghanistan gha what lyndon johnson did in vietnam 40 years before. >> rose: my assumption in the surge in part-- and you assume he thinks it has strategic significance and importance there because you don't want afghanistato be a haven for terrism d at the same time when he was going through this there were only, like, 100 members of al qaeda that there. allknow that. my assumption has...
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are the bondholders more important than the sergeant in afghanistan? that's a tough decision to make. those are the kinds of choices that have to be made, the kind of contingency plans that the treasury is mapping out today. it really terribly dangerous. >> let me ask you, before i turn to bigger issues, what are the political consequences for the president, for the speaker of the house, and for those republicans who are taking a hard-line in the house of representatives? >> well, i mean, i think the president believes that because public opinion is more on his side than on the republican de, particularly on the shape of a big plan or who has been less willing to compromise, that they feel that almost any outcome is likely to be beneficial to the president politically. i think that when he went on the tv on monday night, his speech was aimed at the independence that the white house is -- independents that the white house is so focused on to convince them he's the reasonable player in this. i'm not sure that that's necessarily the case when we come out
are the bondholders more important than the sergeant in afghanistan? that's a tough decision to make. those are the kinds of choices that have to be made, the kind of contingency plans that the treasury is mapping out today. it really terribly dangerous. >> let me ask you, before i turn to bigger issues, what are the political consequences for the president, for the speaker of the house, and for those republicans who are taking a hard-line in the house of representatives? >> well, i...
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afghanistan is is afghanistan is afghanistan. so why are you so... >> well, i think they've actually been sobered by the last cup years and that's why there's this... people are defining the mission in a more narrow way and success in an increasingly narrow way because there's a recognition, grudging perhaps, that they can't change things. but i think we always have a kind of inflated view of what we can do. i mean, we saw this in iraq as well. that there was sort of this report in all this money and an awful lot of money went to ruin pretty quickly. similarly we keep thinking that we can get things going and, you know, if you just put in a little... prime the pump somehow it will work in a place where it's never worked. >> it's a different situation now than it was. we didn't put resources into afghanistan the first few years and it's only been the last two years and especially last year that we've really ramped up the kind of resources we've given. >> rose: the kind of resources that were under the jurisdiction of richard holbr
afghanistan is is afghanistan is afghanistan. so why are you so... >> well, i think they've actually been sobered by the last cup years and that's why there's this... people are defining the mission in a more narrow way and success in an increasingly narrow way because there's a recognition, grudging perhaps, that they can't change things. but i think we always have a kind of inflated view of what we can do. i mean, we saw this in iraq as well. that there was sort of this report in all...
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>> we can talk about afghanistan later. >> life, whatever. well, i don want to get t life. >> now that everydy has sort of worked through their issues and it has become clear that something i think they believed with speaker boehner, but it will come around to something like a $2 trillion package or come up with $2 trillion in vings that will extend the debt limitation. >> that's what the administration believes? that's their revised hope? >> i believe that's true, yes. now, that said, i think that no one involved in this right now really has a good handle on where the boats are and nobody has really seen anyone like that. >> in the congratulate or the implications for this in a political season? >> both. number one i don think anybody knows what can pass right now. because you have -- for example say this 2 trillion-dollar dales. for most democrats it will involve soig medicarend medicaid savings and significant cuts in domestic spending they -- you can't pullhat out of the economy, not the revenues they were hoping for. the overwhelming num
>> we can talk about afghanistan later. >> life, whatever. well, i don want to get t life. >> now that everydy has sort of worked through their issues and it has become clear that something i think they believed with speaker boehner, but it will come around to something like a $2 trillion package or come up with $2 trillion in vings that will extend the debt limitation. >> that's what the administration believes? that's their revised hope? >> i believe that's true,...
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they go off to afghanistan. when some of my friends complain about their taxes i feel like let's continue this conversation of enormity and we'll just talk about this. i really think this country works wonderfly on a marke system. we don't want to give it up. indeed, we have to control that market system in many ways. but it works. it works with the kind of incentes we have. it works we quality of opportunities. it's not perfect. we've tried it but the lucky ones still prosper incredibly disproportionately. i'm not for having some kind of a czar in washington besides what's proper but i do think somethinthat thinks about the 60 million people living at $21 a year or less in their household i think a rich, rich, rich society should think about them a little bit everyday. >> rose: that's the america you believe in. >> yeah, it is. i think it's the america most people believe in. >> rose: are you okay by dodd-frank that, in fact, that was their appropriate reform? >> i haven't read it, charlie. i think there's two
they go off to afghanistan. when some of my friends complain about their taxes i feel like let's continue this conversation of enormity and we'll just talk about this. i really think this country works wonderfly on a marke system. we don't want to give it up. indeed, we have to control that market system in many ways. but it works. it works with the kind of incentes we have. it works we quality of opportunities. it's not perfect. we've tried it but the lucky ones still prosper incredibly...
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when he gave his speech on afghanistan a few weeks ago giving a timetable for the withdrawal of the surge troops, there was very little, almost no discussion of the traditional counterinsurgency of building schools, building hospitals, of investing in the country. and in fact, he repeate a phrase from his 2009 surge speech at west point where he said it's time for nation willing at home. but that wasn't the only one. when the arab spring came along, he announced really no new money to help support the democracy movement in egypt. >> charlie: what does that mean, since we're going to focus here. what do traditional allies think. europe is one case, but what do people who look at the united states believe about our capacity to lead? >> well, they look at what the president has said and they look at what the president has done. and they realize that american is in no mood for either marshall plans or new war. and that comes as a relief to some but to others, it makes them wonder where the burden sharing is going to be. libya'an interesting emple. the president said that the u.s. would take t
when he gave his speech on afghanistan a few weeks ago giving a timetable for the withdrawal of the surge troops, there was very little, almost no discussion of the traditional counterinsurgency of building schools, building hospitals, of investing in the country. and in fact, he repeate a phrase from his 2009 surge speech at west point where he said it's time for nation willing at home. but that wasn't the only one. when the arab spring came along, he announced really no new money to help...
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that's a flag we can run up the pole in afghanistan, actually. but also anywhere else. we feel engaged with cultures that really lock up people for having the wrong faith, repressive, professing the wrong faith or having the wrong opinion. and there is a very honorable line going essentially i think back to milton's -- >> you were saying something about different countries that i have been in the last year from china to turkey to all over the place. >> china is very good case. >> yeah but i'm just thinking about places where there is not this respect. >> no, that's right. >> for the idea of toleration. >> it's true. some element of that in one of the arguments against the government, the secular government of prime minister i-- is perhaps they are not very 208 rant of their critings both from the academy as well as from the military. >> no, they've given right an eremely bad time, that's right. >> rose: that is the kind of thing are you talking about. not the ability to eage being circumscribed. >> no, that's absolutely exacy what mi talking about. >> rose: it's hard to
that's a flag we can run up the pole in afghanistan, actually. but also anywhere else. we feel engaged with cultures that really lock up people for having the wrong faith, repressive, professing the wrong faith or having the wrong opinion. and there is a very honorable line going essentially i think back to milton's -- >> you were saying something about different countries that i have been in the last year from china to turkey to all over the place. >> china is very good case....
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we are in afghanistan virtually alone. >> rose: you know why? first of all they would say... this is what they would say in answer to your question. they would say two things. number one, the united statesed that firepower available that could be in place faster an better. and also that the rich are sending some planes... the brits are sending planes and stuff over and the french. they would also say it's our intent to get out of there and hand all of this over to the brits and the french and others snoochlt. >> rose: and we're not doing it quickly enough. >> rose: it just started three days ago. >> they should have started it with then. >> rose: it was necessary. you need it had fire power to stop qaddafi from marching on benghazi. >> then the british and the french... >> rose: you needed american military to do that. why would you be opposed to that? >> because if that was the case i would not have been opposed to it. it's not been demonstrated to me. i do not understand if you look at the relatively threadbare army of qaddafi that britain and fans and other european countr
we are in afghanistan virtually alone. >> rose: you know why? first of all they would say... this is what they would say in answer to your question. they would say two things. number one, the united statesed that firepower available that could be in place faster an better. and also that the rich are sending some planes... the brits are sending planes and stuff over and the french. they would also say it's our intent to get out of there and hand all of this over to the brits and the french...